Re: [Exim] SpamAssassin small problem running as nobody

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Szerző: Stephen Gran
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CC: Rory Campbell-Lange
Tárgy: Re: [Exim] SpamAssassin small problem running as nobody
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On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 03:31:20PM +0000, Rory Campbell-Lange said:
> I am running Debian testing with exim4-daemon-heavy as a test before
> setting these up on my servers.
>
> The integration with SpamAssassin scanning all the mail entering the
> server works superbly. I am using this acl setup, amongst others:
>
>    warn  message = X-Spam-Score: $spam_score ($spam_bar)
>    spam = nobody:true

>
> However I get a lot of warnings in my syslog along the lines of
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>     "Couldn't create readable default_prefs for
>         [/nonexistant/.spamassassin/user_prefs]"

>
> I realise this is because the user "nobody" doesn't have a home
> directory.
>
> What is the most elegant solution to this problem? Is it safe to run
> this as the "mail" user (whose home is /var/mail)?


That's how I'm doing it, and so far it's working fine.

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